Since 1980, more than 25,000 children have been abducted and forced to fight with the LRA against the Ugandan government in a civil war. Okello Tito says he’s one of the lucky ones because he was never put in that position where he had to go to war as a child. Today, he is a negotiator and a advocate for peace in one of the hottest areas of this activity where he tries to calm people down and make more peaceful relations. He has told his story as apart of the UN initiative of “life after conflict” where they try to uphold international justice.
This is a horrible thing. No person in general should really have to go to war, especially if they are a child. I think about all of the 11 and 12 year old’s I know when I read articles like this. It really makes me appreciate how I have won the birth lottery and I don’t have to grow up in a developing country.
I wonder if there are offers of influence from competing countries with different ideologies to try to have influence in Uganda once it becomes more established. That’s the thing about developing countries they are a lot like a young child, easily influenced and always in need of help.